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Director of Engineering, Security Risk Management

GitLab is an open-core software company delivering an AI-powered DevSecOps platform used by over 100,000 organizations. We are hiring a senior engineering leader to own the technical strategy and architecture for Security Risk Management — building scalable, distributed systems for vulnerability analysis, correlation, risk scoring, and remediation at enterprise scale.

Skills

  • Proven experience designing and operating high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems at scale.
  • Hands-on experience with polyglot persistence (relational, time-series, graph, KV stores) and data modeling for security analytics.
  • Experience with stream processing and event-driven architectures (Kafka, Flink or similar).
  • Strong cloud-native experience: Kubernetes, observability tooling, and containerized deployments.
  • Security domain knowledge: vulnerability assessment, static analysis, dependency scanning, or AppSec testing.
  • Demonstrated leadership growing and transforming large engineering teams and culture towards reliability and scalability.

Responsibilities

  • Design distributed systems capable of processing vulnerability data from thousands of repositories and millions of commits in real-time.
  • Define storage strategies for multi-petabyte security datasets across time-series, graph, and document stores balancing performance and cost.
  • Architect scalable ingestion and analysis pipelines to correlate findings from multiple security tools and produce actionable intelligence.
  • Drive migration from monolithic scanning to microservices-based, event-driven vulnerability management systems.
  • Champion high-performance systems thinking, observability, chaos engineering, and fault-tolerant design across the team.
  • Mentor and grow senior engineers in distributed systems, database optimization, and large-scale architecture.
  • Own the technical roadmap for vulnerability correlation, risk scoring, automated remediation, and cross-stage integrations.
  • Collaborate with Product, UX, Infrastructure, Data and AI teams to translate technical capability into intuitive user experiences.
  • Lead incident response and reliability efforts for customer-facing security systems to meet stringent SLAs.

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Advanced degree (MSc/PhD) in relevant discipline considered a plus but not required.
  • Significant hands-on industry experience expected in lieu of formal degrees.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and well-being benefits
  • Flexible Paid Time Off and parental leave
  • Equity compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Home office equipment support
  • Growth and Development Fund
  • Team Member Resource Groups and inclusive culture
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Maternity Leave
Paternity Leave
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Paid Holidays
Paid Time-Off
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
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Mental Health Resources
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DATE POSTED
October 20, 2025
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